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Contents of the Irish Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The following are  the main papers in the Journals to date; back copies of which may be obtained from the IFPP Administrator. There is normally a fee of €4 charged for each article or €10 charged for each journal, where they are available.

Volume 1, No. 1 1987
ALDERDICE, John  The Value of Psychodynamic Assessment.
SKELTON, Ross  Lacan's Early Criticisms of Freud
FITZGERALD, Michael The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

Volume 1, No. 2 1988
MC GRATH, Tom  Existential Psychoanalysis
SKELTON, Ross  Infinity and Logic in the Emotional Underworld
ELLIOTT, Mitchell  Analysis: Characteristic Resistances
FITZGERALD, Michael The Technique of Analytic Psychotherapy

Volume 1, No. 3, 1989
SKELTON, Ross  Louis Mac Niece and the Lowest Common Denominator
PYLE, Mary   Countertransference
FITZGERALD, Michael & KEENAN, Oliver  A Study of Expectations of a Child & Family Centre
WEATHERILL, Rob  Humanities & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies compared- Limits to Growth.
O' CROININ, Feargus Influences on Freud

Volume 1, No. 4, 1990
MAC DONNELL, Gerry Four Poems
PYLE, Mary   Psychoanalysis and Women
EKINS, Richard  Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Northern Ireland.
FITZGERALD, Michael Supervision of Trainee Therapists
SKELTON, Ross  Rhetoric and Free Association -  The "Schizophrenic" Approach of Matte-Blanco - A Lacanian Perspective
WEATHERILL, Rob  The Fragmentation of Culture
WOOLLETT, K.  Dramatherapy

Volume 2, No. 1, 1991
SHEEHAN, Helen  The Human Subject in Psychoanalysis - A Lacanian Study of the Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.
PYLE, Mary   Francoise Dolto - A Tribute
FITZGERALD, Michael Existentialism and Psychotherapy
MC DONNELL, Gerry Brothers - a poem
WEATHERILL, Rob  The case of Saddam Hussein
SKELTON, Ross  Petrified Waterfalls - The Darker Side of Louis Mac Neice

Volume 2, No. 2, 1992
WEATHERILL, Rob  Are the Kleinians Psychoanalysts at all?
FITZGERALD, Michael The Psychodynamic Treatment of Character Disorders
COX, Olga   Dreams Narrative & Dream Identity in Finnegans Wake
SKELTON, Ross  Ella Sharpe on Cautionary Tales
CAMPBELL, Aisling  Anorexia Nervosa, Masochism

Volume 3, No. 1 Spring 1993
SKELTON, Ross  Lacan for the Fainthearted
COX, Olga Could Schreber have written "The Unnamable"? A Literary Look at "Memoir of my Nervous Illness".
NOLAN, Maeve &
O' MAHONY, Kathleen The Function of the Analyst as Object in the Transference
O' SULLIVAN, Marych Fathering - A Distinctive Role in Child Development
ELLIOTT, Mitch  Oedipal Victory and Child Sexual Abuse
FINK, Klaus   Symmetry and Bi-logic


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